It’s that glorious time of year when kids get to dress up and go door to door, begging for free candy. Best. Holiday. Premise. Ever. I personally love Halloween. I love seeing all of the kids’ costumes. I love giving out candy–and eating it all night long, in an effort to pay my respects to the holiday, of course.
In the interest of keeping the kiddos safe in their pre-diabetic buzz, here’s a couple of tips for the ever-magical all Hallows Eve:
- Reflective tape is a great addition to your sweet cherubs {or not so sweet Zombie’s} costume. Slap some of it on them so that cars can see them bouncing through the streets.
- Cut larger eye holes in face masks. Blindfolds are for pin-the-tail on the donkey, not for trick-or-treating. Larger eye holes make it easier for the kids to see the handful of candy you pull from out of their bucket as a service-charge for schlepping them all over the neighborhood.
- Overfeed the kids a healthy meal, prior to trick or treating. If the kids are too full to over-indulge on candy because they over-indulged on a sensible healthy meal, it means less of a sugar hangover the next day…in theory, at least.
- Use battery operated candles in your pumpkins instead of the real deal. Nobody wants their jack-o-lantern to set their house on fire.
- Only go to well-lit homes. This is both common courtesy and safety oriented.
- If you have older kids who are striking out on their own, insist that they travel in packs. Groups are just safer.
- Clear your own porch of any safety hazards. Hide any cords that might be powering those Halloween decorations, roll up hoses, put away the vat of poison {ha!}. Nobody wants a sugar-inspired lawsuit.
- Check your kids candy at the end of the night. Feel free to confiscate any and all chocolate that looks tasty, um, I mean questionable. This is all about safety, of course.
- Warn older kids to be courteous with regards to time. Overly late trick-or-treaters give the holiday a bad name. I personally don’t have an age limit on my candy doling–if they have a costume AND come at a reasonable time, they get the candy. You’re never too old for free chocolate.
Hope you and your kiddos have a “sweet” Halloween!
~Mavis
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Lana says
My 76 yr old Dad has gloated all of my life about how he trick or treated without a bag and just ate all the candy as he went along. My Grandmother must not have fed him anything at all before he went out!
Mavis says
Ha! She must not have. I bet 70 ish years ago, he didn’t get candy very often, and those door to door collections were an actual treat!